10/02/2014 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

reputation enhanced. That's it. Starting on BBC Two now,

Jeremy Hello, good evening. The school

standards watchdog, Ofsted, has strongly criticised the quality of

Cumbria's secondary schools ` and the leadership provided by the

County Council. It follows an inspection of 17 schools at the end

of last year. Of these, none had improved since their previous Ofsted

inspections ` and eight had declined, including five that were

placed in special measures. From our Carlisle newsroom, Alison Freeman

sent this report. The Ofsted verdict of Cumbria's high schools was

critical. The support provided by Cumbria County Council had not

prevented decline, said the report. It is an obvious thing that it needs

to improve and the leadership of skills to ensure the quality of

teaching improves. Teaching English, teaching maths, targeting teaching

at different groups of pupils. We must ensure those from deprived

backgrounds get a fair education and are lifted out of that deprivation.

The County Council said it could not take responsibility for the

academies that were failing. Jill Marko every time an academy is

created we get funding taken from us in order to pay for academies. We

have currently got 38 secondary schools, 18 of them are academies.

We get resources removed from us but there seems to be a feeling that

somehow we should still be responsible for the performance of

schools over which we have no control. It is not clear whether

academies will be treated differently. There are concerns that

children in schools here are receiving substandard education. A

man who helped his friend attempt to kill himself has had his sentence

cut on appeal. Kevin Howe, supplied Stephen Walker with a can of petrol

and a lighter shortly before he set himself on fire. The court heard

that Mr Walker felt suicidal and begged his friend to do it. Mr

Walker suffered 95% burns, but survived the incident at his home in

Bishop Auckland last May, which followed a heavy drinking session.

Kevin Howe got 12 years for assisting attempted suicide ` but

today the Court of Appeal cut that to ten years. A North East surgeon

has used a 3D printer to rebuild a patient's pelvis. It's believed to

be the first time in the UK the technology has been used this way.

But as our health reporter Sharon Barbour explains, the patient had

such a complicated bone cancer there was no other option. Surgeon, Graig

Gerrand, was faced with an difficult problem, when a patient presented

here at the Freeman Hospital with a rare bone cancer in his pelvis. The

problem with this kind of cancer being beer was these are not many

other treatments. You'll earn a trip would have been to not offer a

reconstruction at all. We decided on the reconstruction using a 3`D

renting technique. How do they work? This one can make complex structures

like this, it costs ?300,000. When you know what you want to make you

can then start to manufacture. It is one layer at the time, you can

create very complex parts in this way. The patient, in his sixties,

had titanium pelvis created this way. Doctors say the possibilities

of its use in future at fantastic. We have done studies and practised

using this technique. You could create evil person. May be! Visitors

to a popular area of the Lake District will be forced to take a

long detour to get there, for the next six weeks. The B5289, which

links Keswick to Borrowdale, closed this morning for emergency repair

work... Drivers will now be re`routed over the Honister Pass via

Buttermere, Lorton and Whinlatter. Excited comic book collectors are

converging on the region to bid for one of the rarest collections of

comics ever found. They were owned by a man in Darlington but now his

widow has put them up for sale, and they're on display in Newcastle, as

Jim Knight reports. Batman, Superman, Spiderman ` all the super

heroes from the last 60 years are all laid`out, lined`up in orderly

lots` ready to go under the hammer tomorrow. It's a sight to get any

serious comic collector drooling. There is a wide range of very

readable comics which will be affordable for people. This

fantastic collection of this comics which were created up here in the

north`east. Back to the serious stuff and some of these earlier

Marvel and DC editions, which are well preserved, will sell for a lot

of money. Some of the comics here are worth for figure sums. The

bidding starts tomorrow at 12. Now, if you are off to bed I will wish

you and extra good night. Let's hear if we need a onesie! The wind will

pick up later and we will see the first sight of this rain on the

Cumbrian coast by tomorrow morning. It will spare red eastwards

tomorrow. There could be snow on higher levels. This will put

eastwards leaving a legacy of wintry showers through the afternoon. The

risk of snow settling down to low levels through the afternoon. It

will feel cold and will be very windy. After the wintry night

tomorrow night things will set very wet and windy from the south`west

through Wednesday. Blustery showers and sunny spells for Thursday. Any

moment the National forecast. Good evening. You have my permission

to complain about too many repeats with the British weather at the

moment because yet again it looks as though our winter weather is set to

continue with a repeat of last week. Sunny spells and scattered showers

today and this is the next area of low pressure pushing in from the

west. It influences our weather for the rest of the week. More rain to

come and gales and severe gales to come. Ice is a possible risk. That

means a cumulative total perhaps or 40-70 millimetres and that is an

extra two to three inches. It will exacerbate the flooding we have

already got across England at the moment. The cloud, wind and rain is

already pushing in from the west. There will be a widespread frost.

Ice could be a problem first thing in Northern Ireland. Snow in the

hills and maybe in the North East of Scotland we could see snow at lower

levels. Rain through northern England and Wales and Somerset. Some

of that rain could be quite intense coupled with squally, gusty winds on

exposed coasts. In the east it starts off relatively dry, but it

will not be long before the wind and the rain spreads further east. Up

into the North the snow showers continue on the hills, but by the

end of the afternoon we could see wet snow even at lower levels. A

cold day. There is a potential for some snow showers at lower levels

across England and Wales on Tuesday night and into Wednesday. On

Wednesday it is this area of low pressure which is the main factor in

Wednesday's weather. More wet and windy weather. An early amber

warning has already been issued from the South West. Severe gales are

likely as we continue to see some very wet weather coming into central

and southern areas. The strongest winds follow in behind those

showers. In Scotland you are probably wondering what the